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One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary critical opinion on major authors, this collection includes essays by Jacques Guicharnaud, Rene Bray, Gustave Lanson, Alfred Simon, Will G. Moore, Ramon Fernandez, Paul Benichou, Lionel Gossman, Andre Villiers, James Doolittle, H. Gaston Hall, Robert J. Nelson, Jacques Copeau, Charles Dullin, J. D. Hubert, and Jacques Audiberti--all dealing with the biography and literary work of Moliere. Designed for use by both literary critics and secondary and college teachers of English, this work would also be of value to undergraduate and graduate students of literature. Divided into four sections, the essays include "Moliere and Farce,""The Comedy of Will,""The Comic Hero and His Idols,""The Humanity of Moliere's Don Juan," and"The Doctor's Curse." A chronology of important dates in Moliere's life, a brief set of biographical notes of the contributors to this collection, and a 64-item selected bibliography of works on Moliere complete the volume. (RB)

One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary critical opinion on major authors, this collection includes essays by Paul Valery, Henri Peyre, Fracois Mauriac, Charles du Bos, Etienne Gilson, P.M. Pasinetti, John Middleton Murry, Marcel Proust, Georges Poulet, Erich Auerbach, and Jean Prevost--all dealing with the biography and literary work of Baudelaire. Designed for use by both literary critics and secondary and college teachers of English, this work would also be of value to undergraduate and graduate students of literature. The essays are divided into three sections discussing the position of Baudelaire, the life of Baudelaire and its influence on his work, and the themes in Baudelaire. A chronology of important dates in Baudelaire's life, a brief set of biographical notes on the contributors to this collection, and a selected bibliography on Baudelaire and his work complete this volume. (LL)

One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary critical opinion on major authors, this collection includes essays by Victor Brombert, Martin Turnell, Erich Auerbach, Jean Prevost, Raymond Giraud, Irving Howe, Judd D. Hubert, Leon Blum, Jean Starobinski, Jean-Pierre Richard, and Simone de Beauvoir--all dealing with the biography and literary work of Stendhal. Designed for use by both literary critics and secondary and college teachers of English, this work would also be of value to undergraduate and graduate students of literature. Divided into two major sections--"The Novels" and "The Novelist"--the essays include "Romantic Realism in Lucien Leuwen,""Stendhal: The Politics of Survival,""A Theoretical Outline of 'Beylism,'""Truth in Masquerade," and "Stendhal, Analyst or Amorist." A chronology of important dates in Stendhal's life, a brief set of biographical notes on the contributors to this collection, and a twelve-item bibliography of works on Stendhal complete the volume. (RB)

One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary critical opinion on major authors, this collection includes essays by Rene Girard, Robert Vigneron, Henri Peyre, Jacques Riviere, Albert Thibaudet, Walter A. Strauss, Germaine Bree, Georges Cattaui, Elliott Coleman, Leo Spitzer, Richard Macksey, Robert Champigny, Charles Du Bos, Ramon Fernandez, Georges Poulet, and Marcel Proust--all dealing with the biography and literary work of Marcel Proust. Designed for use by both literary critics and secondary and college teachers of English, this work would also be of value to undergraduate and graduate students of literature. Topics covered include the legacy of Proust, images as instruments, intuition and philology, the profundity of Proust, and Proust and human time. A chronology of important dates in Proust's life, a brief set of biographical notes on the contributors to this collection, and a thirteen-item bibliography of works on Proust complete the volume. (RB)

One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary critical opinion on major authors, this collection includes essays by Germaine Bree, Nicola Chairmonte, Serge Doubrovsky, Justin O'Brien, Wilfrid Sheed, Roger Quilliot, Thomas L. Hanna, Bernard C. Murchland, Henri Peyre, S. Beynon John, Rachel Bespaloff, Jean-Paul Sartre, Robert Champigny, Gaetan Picon, and Henry Popkin dealing with the biography and literary work of Albert Camus. Designed for use by both literary critics and secondary and college teachers of English, this work would also be of value to undergraduate and graduate students of literature. The essays deal with such topics as Camus and the Christian faith, Sartre vs. Camus, Camus the pagan, the ethics of Camus, ethics and aesthetics in "The Stranger," images and symbols in Camus, Camus as dramatist, and notes on "The Plague." A chronology of important dates in Camus' life, a brief set of biographical notes on the contributors to this collection, and a bibliography of works on Camus in both English and French complete the volume. (LL)

One of a series of works aimed at presenting contemporary critical opinion on major authors, this collection includes essays by Edith Kern, Claude-Edmonde Magny, Henri Peyre, Kenneth Douglas, Edmund Wilson, Theophil Spoerri, Jacques Guicharnaud, Eric Bentley, Robert Champigny, Oreste F. Pucciani, Frederic Jameson, Rene Girard, Guido Morpurgo-Tagliabue, John D. Wils, Hazel E. Barnes, Rene Marill-Alberes, and H. J. Blackman--all concerned with the literature, philosophy, and political thought of Jean-Paul Sartre. Designed for use by both literary critics and secondary and college teachers of English, this work would also be of value to undergraduate and graduate students of literature and philosophy. The essays are divided into seven categories: "Fiction: The Novel,""Fiction: The Theatre,""Fiction: Style,""Literary Criticism,""Philosophy,""Existential Psychoanalysis," and "Politics." A chronology of important dates in Sartre's life, a brief set of biographical notes on the contributors to this collection, and a 41-item selected bibliography of books, articles, and essays on Sartre complete the volume. (RB)

An enumerated, comprehensive 12,087-item bibliography of publications on French language and literature with current prices is offered primarily for school and library use. In each of the eight major divisions the author is listed alphabetically with the exception of the Middle Ages, where literary genre classification is employed. The traditional, chronological division of literary periods by century is employed from the Middle Ages through the 20th century. Further subdivision in each century treats civilization, the arts, and literature, further subdivided into anthologies, critical essays and studies of literary history, and authors and their works. The first general chapter deals with civilization, the arts, literature (including bibliographies, dictionaries and encyclopedias, books and publishing, anthologies of literature, history of literature, and critical essays and studies of literary history), and miscellaneous topics related to philosophy and esthetics, pedagogy and teaching, folklore, and the press. The three part section on liguistics includes: (1) a bibliography and publications of congresses and learned societies, (2) general linguistics, and (3) material on the French language (history and usage, contemporary French, and learning French). An author and anonymous work index is followed by two lists of recordings indexed by author and subject. (RL)

Because French boys command a sharper accuracy of thought and form in their speaking and writing than do young Americans of the same age, this book examines the educational system in France for the light it might shed on the teaching of English in America. Chapters consider (1) syllabi for two kindergarten-through-high-school courses in composition, grammar, and literature (one liberal, the other vocational), one of which all French children must sequentially master, (2) specific accommodations of these courses in the classroom, with a discussion of theme criticism in composition, the use of inductive method in grammar, and the explication of literature, (3) the influence of the teaching of foreign languages on the use of the native tongue, (4) the preparation, professional characteristics, and intellectual concerns of the teacher, and his everyday resourcefulness in transmitting the subject matter, and (5) the ways that a respected language tradition perpetuates good speech and writing. (JB)

Several of the important themes of post-World War II English, French, and German drama are analyzed in this book. The first chapter briefly examines the major contemporary playwrights in each national literature. Subsequent chapters discuss contemporary drama as an expression of Artaud's "theatre of cruelty," its relationship to the changing concepts of the tragic hero, its use of tragi-comic modes, and its concurrence with "world as stage" metaphor. Among the playwrights discussed are Pinter, Ionesco, Brecht, Genet, Albee, Camus, Frisch, Durrenmatt, and Eliot. (LH)

This book is designed to help the student plan and present a paper in literature. The first sections deal briefly with the selection of a topic, research sources, steps in the organization and development of the paper, fundamentals of term paper form, and a few general tips on term paper writing. The second section presents more than 1000 suggestions for term paper topics, drawn from the genres of novel, poetry, and drama; graded according to levels of difficulty; and arranged by period from classic to 20th century literature and by country, including English, American, French, German, Russian, and Scandinavian literature. (DD)

This French text of selected articles, lectures, and writings from Bally to Jakobson presents a typology of literary styles, complementing an introductory book on the theory and readings in stylistics by dealing with the problems and methods of stylistic analysis. Seeking to arrive at a description of the inner structure of literary texts, it develops a synthesis of structural and traditional linguistics, which is applied to the analysis of various literary tests. Major chapters include: (1) problems and methods: the form and function of language and style, and linguistics and literary criticism; (2) vocabulary and the field of stylistics: excerpts and discussion of Baudelaire, Mallarme, and Valery; (3) grammar: time, space, and literature; and (4) metrics and "expressivity": semiology and poetic expression, the esthetics of French verse, and the metrics of Verlaine's "Romances sans paroles." An index and bibliography are included. For companion documents see FL 001 811 and FL 001 812. (RL)